announced an integratedtechnology platform that will provide an on-ramp to private and hybrid cloud computing in theenterprise. The technology combination is designed to help businesses achieve maximum ITagility throughcloud computing, integrating infrastructure for private and hybrid clouds withenterprise IT self-service and system automation.

As a preferred delivery partner,MomentumSI

will bring enterprise IT organizations self-service private and hybrid clouds built on top of thethree vendors’ technologies.

Background

As always, IT organizations are under pressure to deliver. They must meet the needs of thebusiness organizations they support,

while ensuringsecurity, privacy, governance and otherstandards are met.At the same time, cloud computing has emerged as an approach to IT whichcan dramatically improve both efficiency and agility.While the benefits of cloud computing arecomplementary

to the fundamental mission of IT, there is fear–

whether real or imagined–

that using public cloud services will put IT, and therefore the business, at risk.

To ease these concerns, yet still capturethe benefits of cloud computing, enterprise ITorganizations have become increasingly interested in deploying their own internal clouds

(oftencalled private clouds). At a high level, the idea is to combine the elasticity of the cloudtechnology with the control of private resources.

However, there are a couple catches.

First, private clouds are essentially built, not bought. Youdon’t pull out a credit card to access a private cloud. The ITorganization must provide it. Of course only the mostsophisticated IT organizations can build a private cloudfrom scratch. Instead, most relyon various forms ofcommercial software designed to deliver cloudinfrastructure services.They also rely on consultants who have direct experience in clouddeployments.This is all good, but there is still more to do.

The second catch has to do with running or managing the private cloud. Once it is available, thefollowing questions inevitably arise. “How will my users access the cloud? Which users areapproved for accessing which services? How do I control and approve that access? How do Imove my applications to the cloud? How do I update applications in the cloud? How can Iautomate all these tasks?”

are not insurmountable. In fact, there areFour Keys to the Enterprise Cloud

which address them:

1.

Self-service

2.

Automation

3.

Elasticity

4.

Integration

Further, it is these same four keys to the enterprise cloud which newScale, rPath,EucalyptusSystemsandMomentumSI

have come together to provide.

Building and managing aprivatecloud is now within reach.

Value Proposition

The core elements of this integrated technology platform can be summarized as follows:



Self-service: Standardized, ready-to-orderservices

that simplify the

interface betweenIT and lines of business, while ensuringproper governance.



Automation: On-demandinfrastructure,application and business service offeringsthat can be deployedacross physical,virtual and cloud environments.



Elasticity:

Elastically provisioned and de-provisioned compute capacity in the datacenter, driven by

changing priorities andfluctuations in demand.



Integration:Best practices,

adoption model

and

implementation services

for makingthe transition to self-service, private andhybrid clouds.

Once again, other solutionsare more focused on the elasticity portion. While a cloud wouldn’tbe a cloud without elasticity, it is the other elements of this solution that make it somethingmore

than an infrastructure cloud.

Another important pointon the capabilities of

this solution is its support of the hybrid cloudmodel.

Rather than limiting infrastructure usage to servers within the enterprise, this solutionsupports cloud-bursting. When needed and only if desired, additional compute resources canbe provisioned from a publiccloud such as Amazon EC2.

Target Customers

This initiative is specifically targeted at enterprise IT organizations thatwant to transform theirIT departments into internally-managed versions of a public cloud service. It is alsoapplicable

tofederal

andstate government IT organizations. It is not meantfor hosting providers to use in